A two-site survey of medical center personnel's willingness to share clinical data for research: implications for reproducible health NLP research.

Journal: BMC medical informatics and decision making
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: A shareable repository of clinical notes is critical for advancing natural language processing (NLP) research, and therefore a goal of many NLP researchers is to create a shareable repository of clinical notes, that has breadth (from multiple institutions) as well as depth (as much individual data as possible).

Authors

  • Chunhua Weng
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University.
  • Carol Friedman
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
  • Casey A Rommel
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, 84108, USA.
  • John F Hurdle
    Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.